You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.